Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During his campaign for Governor, Mississippi's Democratic Lieutenant Governor Paul Burney Johnson Jr. rarely stopped talking about race. "Either you believe in states' rights, home rule," he told one rural rally, "or you believe in turning over this state to a black minority." He got surefire belly laughs with his definition of the N.A.A.C.P. as a combine of "niggers, alligators, apes, coons and possums...
This neat reasoning has one major flaw. Where a publisher has the field to himself, his newspaper can be a mediocre hodgepodge of rural obits on the front page, disjointed wire-service pieces, syndicated advice columns, plus a heavy dose of detailed high school sports coverage. Yet it will blanket the area, carry all the advertising the marketplace can afford, and make as much money as any Pulitzer prizewinner would in the same situation...
North Carolina's special schools, new and planned, are biracial, and on the score of desegregation the state's big cities and its university have led the South. But rural areas are so segregated that even now only one-half of 1% of Negro pupils go to school with whites. Sanford is not proud of that fact, but apparently feels that it was hard enough to get his new tax through the assembly without also trying to push desegregation by faster means than the present case-by-case court tests...
...Rooster. All through his student years, Baeumer kept chummy with chickens; when he started medical practice in rural Wiedenau, he turned his garden into a chicken yard. He spent all his spare moments there, communing with the inmates, observing their language and customs. Sometimes he incubated a clutch of eggs and kept the chicks isolated so that they accepted him as their mother and apparently thought other humans were just big chickens. He listened carefully while their baby peeps changed to adult chicken language, and found that it came from instinct and never varied appreciably. Roosters raised in isolation from...
...scooters), hemisphere-ranging investment house that specializes in Latin American finance. Deltec set up and controls an affiliate known as Valardel, formed to tap idle cash in the hinterlands, where owners have had little to invest in except land. Deliberately staying out of the big cities and concentrating on rural customers, Valardel has sold stocks in twelve Argentine companies, including a steelworks, several auto firms and a paper maker...